* (c) 2006 under the same (always latest) license(s) used by the Perl 6 /src branch of the Pugs trunk.
* See http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/README for the latest details.
* See the "GPL-2", "Artistic-2.0b5", and "MIT" files in http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/LICENSE/ for the full license texts.

^^^ This is the home page for Perl 6

* Please post any questions about this Wiki (plus notifications of any noteworthy updates you make) to perl.perl6.users. (See section on Perl 6 mailing lists for more information.)
* Please feel free to add or modify pages — even this one — as you see fit. That's the idea of a Workspace. So please contribute links and information! (See *Wiki 101* at bottom of page to get started.)
* "About that $1,000 Perl 6 Wiki prize"[Conrad Schneiker].

^^^ Related Projects

These projects are closely related to Perl 6, but they are designed to support a wide range of other languages as well.

* There is a seperate workspace for {link: parrot [Parrot]}, the Perl 6 virtual machine.
* CPAN6 is designed to be the successor to Perl 5's CPAN.
** The [CPAN6] area in this wiki.
** The CPAN6 Project home page is (<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/>).

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^^ What is Perl 6?

* "Perl 6"<http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6> is an extensively refactored, super-modernized, and ultra-supercharged derivative of Perl 5. Simple things will still be simple to do, but you'll have enormously more "syntactic compound leverage" and "semantic overdrive" available for tackling challenging tasks.
* Chromatic has written a good introductory article on "why Perl 6 is needed, and what it is"<http://www.perl.com/pub/a/2006/01/12/what_is_perl_6.html>.
* Also see Juerd's "Refuting Perl 6 Myths"<http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/talks/p6myths2.html>. (A slight correction to Juerd's slides: it is Perl 5.10 that will have many Perl 6 features you can start using. These will be in "feature.pm"<http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.9.3/lib/feature.pm>, which is currently part of the "Perl 5.9 developer branch"<http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.9.3/>.)
* See the documentation section below for much more information.

^^^ The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List

* [The Long Perl 6 Super-Feature List] This list was moved to its own page so that there would be plenty of room for people at add additional explanations of what these features are, and to explain why they are Very Good Things (tm).

^^^ More Answers

* Larry Wall (2006): Perhaps the Perl 6 slogan should be "All Your Paradigms Are Belong To Us". We'll get to that.
* Damian Conway (2003): The Perl 6 design process is about keeping what works in Perl 5, fixing what doesn't, and adding what's missing. That means there will be a few fundamental changes to the language, a large number of extensions to existing features, and a handful of completely new ideas. These modifications, enhancements, and innovations will work together to make the future Perl even more insanely great — without, we hope, making it even more greatly insane.
* Perl 6 is still under construction. So don't make critical plans that depend on it just yet. However, please see other sections below about intermediate Perl 6-related solutions you can use now (or soon, as in Perl 5.10, which will feature several Perl 6 features).
* Crazy (in a good way).
* Perl 5 : Swiss Army Chain Saw == Perl 6 : Swiss Army T-X Terminator (on the side of humans in this case).
* ....

(See the next major section for general information, including documentation, tutorials, and so on.)

^^^ Upcoming Perl 6-Related Events

* (waiting for volunteers to update)
* ....

^^^ Perl 6 News

* "Planet Perl 6 blog aggregrator"<http://planetsix.perl.org/> (The best general news source for Perl 6. It would be very helpful if others selectively copied the most useful information from this great resource into appropriate sections of this wiki.)
* "Planet Parrot blog aggregator"<http://planet.parrotcode.org/>

^^^ Perl 6 Mailing Lists

The currently active Perl 6 mailing lists are at (<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/>) and Google Groups (<http://groups.google.com/>) under these names:

(Note: since Google Groups mirrors these lists, there used to be some sort of problem with posts to these groups through Google not being seen by the subscribers to the underlying mail lists, meaning most people never saw the post in real time. Please update this note if that's changed. Keep in mind that Google Groups is still a fantastic resource for searching perl.perl6.* archives, and for reading threads on the web.)

You can also get these list by email; see (<http://lists.cpan.org/showlist.cgi?name=perl6-users)> for details (and make appropriate substitutions on "-users" for other groups).

You can access the mailing lists in several ways (we use perl.perl6.users as an example below, make appropriate substitutions for the other cases):

* Subscribe by emailing perl6-users-subscribe@perl.org.
* Access the news feed by pointing your news reader to: (news://nntp.perl.org/perl.perl6.users). Need a decent Windows newsreader? "Mozilla's Thunderbird"<http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/> works for me.
* We're also (-: at last! :-) available at Google Groups perl.perl6.users (<http://groups.google.com/group/perl.perl6.users>).
* Subject lines of mailing list posts with link to each post can be found in the perl.perl6.users mail list archives (<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.users>).
* There is also a "RSS feed"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/rss/perl.perl6.users.rdf>.

^^^ Perl 6 IRC

IRC channels (and their archives) are a major source of useful information. NOTE: Please don't unthinkingly interrupt and pester the developers of Perl 6 with questions that you can just as well ask on perl.perl6.users, which they and others can then later answer at their convenience. (As always, it's good manners to search Google Groups and to check archival logs before posting questions.)

* [Glossary of Perl 6 Terms and Jargon].
* Official Perl 6 Documentation (Which means, documentation that is officially bundled with Perl 6 builds and releases.)
** Title Page and Contents, which points to official docs, but doen't appear to be part of official docs (<http://feather.perl6.nl/syn>)
** "Perl 6 Synopses"<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/doc/synopsis.html> (This is the official Perl 6 specification, which supersedes the apocalypses and exegeses, and which is bundled with Perl 6 builds. The rapidly growing Perl 6 test base is another {very important, complementary, and emerging} part of the Perl 6 specification as well.)
** Perl 6 Docs (<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/docs/>)
** Perl 6 Cookbook (<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/examples/cookbook/>)
** Perl 6 examples (<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/examples/>)
** Perl 6 tests, which can serve as additional examples (<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/t/>)
** Perl 6 FAQ, very limited, but has sections on captures and FUD (<http://svn.openfoundry.org/pugs/docs/Perl6/FAQ/>)
* Perl 6 Community Development Server (<http://feather.perl6.nl/>)
* "Perl's Official Home Page"<http://www.perl.org/> (at perl.org)
** Perl 6 Development Info (<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/>)
** Perl 6 FAQ, a bit dated (<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/faq.html>)
** Who's Who in Perl 6, parrot, & Pugs (<http://dev.perl.org/perl6/people.html>)
* "Another Perl 6 Wiki"<http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6> (For a long time, the Perl 6 Wiki at perl.net.au was the best general introduction to Perl 6, and was a great point of departure to other Perl 6 resources around the web. It's still worth checking out.)
** "Perl 6 Tutorial"<http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6_Tutorial>
** "Perl 6 Users FAQ"<http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6_Users_FAQ> (The initial large batch of text and links on this Wiki originally came from this FAQ. The folks there deserve much thanks for "Wikifying" my original ugly ASCII Perl 6 Users FAQ, which was compiled for the inaguration of perl.perl6.users.)
* Most of the information on getting started can be found on this "getting started"<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/docs/getting_started> page. You may also find the following links useful:
** Debian Linux (guide in "English"<http://dresden-pm.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/PM/PugsFirstBloodEnglish>, "German"<http://dresden-pm.org/cgi-bin/twiki/view/PM/PugsFirstBlood>).
** "Ubuntu Linux"<http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl6.users/36>.
* Russian language "Perl 6 website"<http://perl6.ru/>.

* ""Perl Best Practices"<http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlbp/>" by Damian Conway. Even though this currently applies to Perl 5, most of the principles also apply to Perl 6. This book is a semi-officially recommended guideline for people doing develop core Perl 6 modules and tests.
* ""Confessions of a Used Programming Language Salesman; Getting the Masses Hooked on Haskell"<http://research.microsoft.com/~emeijer/Papers/ICFP06.pdf>" (Warning: PDF link) by Erik Meijer.
* "Traits"<http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~scg/Research/Traits/> are one of the "Big Ideas" that have had some influence on #perl6 design discussions.
* ""The 100 Year Language"<http://www.paulgraham.com/hundred.html>" Useful information on how we should view Perl 6 (although it's not about Perl 6).

^^^ Hacking the Perl 6 production docs

* "Read this first"<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/docs/README>.
* "The evil plan"<http://svn.perl.org/perl6/pugs/trunk/docs/notes/docs_evil_plan.txt>. This mentions many things you can do to help out with docs, although it is a bit dated.
* This plan is still current AFAIK: "Perl 6 developers are refactoring relevant introductions, tutorials, specifications into the Perl6::Doc namespace; expect to see this module subsumed by it in the near future.":
** (<http://www.annocpan.org/~AUTRIJUS/Perl6-Bible-0.30/lib/Perl6/Bible.pm>),
** (<http://search.cpan.org/~autrijus/Perl6-Bible-0.30/lib/Perl6/Bible.pm>).

* In Perl 5.9 (development branch) and Perl 5.10 (production release), "feature.pm"<http://search.cpan.org/~rgarcia/perl-5.9.3/lib/feature.pm> provides some Perl 6 features that you will be able to selectively turn on.
* There are many modules that currently implement parts of Perl 6 in Perl 5. Go to "CPAN"<http://search.cpan.org/> and do a "module search on perl6"<http://search.cpan.org/search?query=perl6&mode=module>.
* (Note: (<http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Perl6>) is missing many entries. Use the search above for the time being.)
* Some of these are listed on the "Perl 6"<http://perl.net.au/wiki/Perl_6> page.
* ....

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